Enumeration and Asymptotic Formulas for Rectangular Partitions of the Hypercube
Yu Hin (Gary) Au, Fatemeh Bagherzadeh, and Murray R. Bremner
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E6
Canada
Abstract:
We study a two-parameter generalization of the
Catalan numbers Cd,p(n),
which counts the number of ways to subdivide the d-dimensional hypercube
into n rectangular regions using orthogonal partitions of fixed arity
p. Bremner & Dotsenko
first introduced the numbers Cd,p(n)
in their work
on tensor products of operads, wherein they used homological algebra to
prove a recursive formula and a
functional equation. We express Cd,p(n)
as simple finite sums, and determine their growth rate and asymptotic
behavior. We give an elementary combinatorial proof of the functional
equation, as well as a bijection between hypercube decompositions and
a family of full p-ary trees. Our results generalize the well-known
correspondence between Catalan numbers and full binary trees.
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(Concerned with sequences
A000108
A001190
A236339
A236342.)
Received March 5 2019; revised version received November 4 2019; November 5 2019.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences,
December 29 2019.
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